As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states. It was also a leading player inthe settlements established in the Levant in the wake of the crusades. It survives today. In this source-based and up-to-date account of its activities andinternal history in the first two centuries of its existence, attention is particularly paid to the lives of the brothers and sisters who made up its membership and were professed religious. Themes in the book relate to the tension that always existed between the Hospital's roles as both a hospitaller and a military order and its performance as an institution that was at the same time areligious order and a great international corporation. INDICE: List of Abbreviations .Explication and Acknowledgements .Prologue .PART I: INCEPTION .Origins, c.1070-1160 .Militarization, 1126-1182 .Reaching Maturity, 1177-1206 .The Order and the Politics of the Latin East, 1201-1244 .PART II: THE MISSION .Nursing the Sick and Burying the Dead .Defending Christians .PART III: THE ORDER .Members .Conventual Life .The Master, his Convent and the Chapter General .The Conventual Bailiffs and their Departments .PART IV:ASSETS .An Exempt Order of the Church .The Estate in the Levant .Provincial Government and the Estate in Europe .PART V: THE END OF THE BEGINNING .The Lossof the Mainland, 1244-1291 .Interlude on Cyprus, 1291-1309 .Epilogue .Appendix: Masters of the Hospital .Bibliography .Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-29083-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2012
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